Actionable Insight Job Trends in England

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 259 194
Rank change year-on-year +93 -65 +254
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 744 567 769
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.43% 1.16% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.28% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 445 289 245
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £31,867
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,840 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +9.14% +3.57%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £59,556
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.94% +3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Actionable Insight falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,542 44,136 42,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.90% 90.32% 90.98%
Number of salaries quoted 25,391 21,842 32,852
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,195 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Actionable Insight relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in England

Actionable Insight
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Actionable Insight.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in England over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Actionable Insight in England

Actionable Insight
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Insight within the England region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +110 318 £65,000 -18.75% 287
South East +72 143 £47,500 -37.50% 175
North of England +81 134 £48,979 -14.07% 117
Midlands +27 80 £47,500 +11.73% 109
North West +44 56 £48,979 -14.07% 52
Yorkshire +22 49 £48,750 -25.00% 57
West Midlands +30 48 £47,500 +5.56% 63
South West +8 41 £45,000 - 62
East Midlands +9 32 £49,279 +15.95% 41
North East +34 29 £59,038 +29.75% 10
East of England -39 16 £39,500 -48.03% 71
Actionable Insight
UK

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.08%) CMS
3 7 (0.94%) WordPress
4 6 (0.81%) IIS
5 5 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.54%) Confluence
6 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.27%) Apache
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.27%) Moodle
7 2 (0.27%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 166 (22.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.02%) Adobe XD
3 15 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.40%) Sketch
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.13%) Notion
7 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.08%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.40%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.27%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.27%) Shopify
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Pegasus Opera
6 1 (0.13%) Primavera
6 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 251 (33.74%) Power Platform
2 123 (16.53%) Azure
3 61 (8.20%) AWS
4 37 (4.97%) SaaS
4 37 (4.97%) Snowflake
5 36 (4.84%) Google Analytics
6 28 (3.76%) GCP
7 26 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (2.82%) Figma
9 19 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (2.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 19 (2.55%) Power Automate
10 16 (2.15%) PowerApps
11 13 (1.75%) Entra ID
11 13 (1.75%) Google Ads
12 11 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (1.48%) dbt
13 10 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.21%) GitHub
15 7 (0.94%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.81%) WinSCP
2 4 (0.54%) Broadband
3 2 (0.27%) Intranet
4 1 (0.13%) ADSL
4 1 (0.13%) Internet
4 1 (0.13%) RFID
4 1 (0.13%) RTP
4 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (33.60%) Power BI
2 96 (12.90%) Tableau
3 44 (5.91%) Data Lake
4 36 (4.84%) Looker
5 35 (4.70%) SQL Server
6 34 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
7 29 (3.90%) SAP BW
8 28 (3.76%) Power Query
9 23 (3.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (2.28%) Metadata
11 16 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (2.02%) Data Mining
13 14 (1.88%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.34%) Relational Database
15 9 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (1.08%) Big Data
17 7 (0.94%) Semantic Layer
17 7 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 6 (0.81%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (3.63%) JIRA
2 17 (2.28%) Git
3 12 (1.61%) Axure RP
3 12 (1.61%) Balsamiq
4 6 (0.81%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.81%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.67%) Selenium
5 5 (0.67%) Subversion
6 4 (0.54%) LoadRunner
6 4 (0.54%) Postman
7 3 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.40%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.40%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.40%) JMeter
7 3 (0.40%) Maven
7 3 (0.40%) TestNG
7 3 (0.40%) WebDriver
7 3 (0.40%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 356 (47.85%) Social Skills
2 347 (46.64%) Analytical Skills
3 249 (33.47%) Finance
4 147 (19.76%) Marketing
5 76 (10.22%) Public Sector
6 64 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (7.93%) Law
7 59 (7.93%) Retail
8 52 (6.99%) Organisational Skills
9 48 (6.45%) Legal
10 43 (5.78%) Manufacturing
11 29 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (3.63%) Banking
13 25 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (2.82%) Advertising
15 20 (2.69%) Financial Institution
16 15 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (2.02%) Electronics
17 14 (1.88%) Telecoms
18 10 (1.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 205 (27.55%) Analyst
2 115 (15.46%) Senior
3 101 (13.58%) Data Analyst
4 69 (9.27%) Lead
5 56 (7.53%) User Researcher
6 40 (5.38%) Developer
7 35 (4.70%) Senior Analyst
8 31 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 30 (4.03%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 30 (4.03%) Commercial Analyst
9 30 (4.03%) Senior User Researcher
10 28 (3.76%) Insight Analyst
11 27 (3.63%) Data Engineer
12 24 (3.23%) Consultant
13 22 (2.96%) Business Analyst
14 20 (2.69%) Development Manager
15 18 (2.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 17 (2.28%) Commercial Data Analyst
16 17 (2.28%) Data Insight Analyst
16 17 (2.28%) Insight Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.55%) CSS
2 18 (2.42%) HTML
3 11 (1.48%) .NET
4 7 (0.94%) Kafka
4 7 (0.94%) PySpark
4 7 (0.94%) scikit-learn
4 7 (0.94%) TensorFlow
5 6 (0.81%) NumPy
5 6 (0.81%) Pandas
6 5 (0.67%) Flash
6 5 (0.67%) Hugging Face
6 5 (0.67%) Play Framework
7 4 (0.54%) Next.js
8 3 (0.40%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.40%) React
8 3 (0.40%) REST
9 2 (0.27%) Framer.js
9 2 (0.27%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (0.27%) Jest
9 2 (0.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.20%) Analytical Mindset
2 31 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 28 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 27 (3.63%) NHS
5 24 (3.23%) FMCG
6 20 (2.69%) Learning Management System
7 19 (2.55%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.42%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.28%) Algorithms
10 16 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.88%) Blog
12 13 (1.75%) Social Media
13 11 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.34%) Insider Threat
14 10 (1.34%) Security Posture
15 9 (1.21%) Cloud Native
15 9 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
16 7 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (0.94%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.96%) Windows
2 14 (1.88%) Linux
3 10 (1.34%) Mac OS
4 8 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) Android
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (42.74%) Analytics
2 296 (39.78%) Decision-Making
3 289 (38.84%) Business Intelligence
4 237 (31.85%) Problem-Solving
5 157 (21.10%) Agile
6 156 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 139 (18.68%) Data Modelling
7 139 (18.68%) Visualisation
8 124 (16.67%) Data Analysis
9 108 (14.52%) Data Governance
10 105 (14.11%) Mentoring
11 103 (13.84%) AI
12 87 (11.69%) Data Visualisation
13 83 (11.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 83 (11.16%) User Research
14 79 (10.62%) CRM
15 75 (10.08%) Process Improvement
16 71 (9.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 70 (9.41%) Data Analytics
18 69 (9.27%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 208 (27.96%) SQL
2 126 (16.94%) Python
3 46 (6.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 29 (3.90%) R
5 19 (2.55%) Java
5 19 (2.55%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.88%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.34%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.21%) Scala
9 8 (1.08%) VBA
10 5 (0.67%) VB.NET
11 4 (0.54%) C#
11 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.27%) C++
12 2 (0.27%) Go
12 2 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.13%) ABAP
13 1 (0.13%) C
13 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 197 (26.48%) Degree
2 67 (9.01%) Security Cleared
3 47 (6.32%) SC Cleared
4 39 (5.24%) ACCA
5 26 (3.49%) CIMA
5 26 (3.49%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.23%) CIPD
7 23 (3.09%) CISSP
8 17 (2.28%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.88%) CISA
9 14 (1.88%) MBA
10 13 (1.75%) CREST Certified
11 11 (1.48%) DBS Check
12 10 (1.34%) CISM
12 10 (1.34%) OSCP
13 9 (1.21%) GIAC
14 8 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.08%) CRISC
15 7 (0.94%) CEH
15 7 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (17.74%) Data Quality
2 75 (10.08%) Actionable Recommendations
3 63 (8.47%) Accessibility
4 32 (4.30%) QA
5 31 (4.17%) GDPR
6 21 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.75%) NIST
7 13 (1.75%) PMO
8 12 (1.61%) WCAG
9 9 (1.21%) GRC
10 5 (0.67%) COBIT
10 5 (0.67%) ITGC
10 5 (0.67%) MiFID
11 4 (0.54%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.40%) PSD2
13 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.27%) IFRS
13 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 6 (0.81%) Docker
2 4 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 7 (0.94%) Terraform
2 6 (0.81%) Nmap
3 4 (0.54%) Grafana
3 4 (0.54%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.13%) Argo
5 1 (0.13%) Kibana
5 1 (0.13%) Nessus
5 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 116 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.74%) Google
3 54 (7.26%) SAP
4 42 (5.65%) Salesforce
5 28 (3.76%) HubSpot
6 23 (3.09%) Databricks
7 16 (2.15%) Adobe
8 12 (1.61%) Foundry
9 11 (1.48%) Alteryx
9 11 (1.48%) Xero
10 9 (1.21%) Palantir
11 8 (1.08%) Cisco
11 8 (1.08%) Oracle
12 7 (0.94%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.94%) TikTok
12 7 (0.94%) YouTube
13 6 (0.81%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.81%) Zoho
14 5 (0.67%) Splunk
14 5 (0.67%) Talend